When I was about 10 years old, I wanted to be a writer, and today I found one of my old drafts and read it, and I immeadiately realised that all I did was reproducing the Harry Potter books in a slightly different way. Either I was writing fanfictions before I even knew what fanfictions were or I was just a shitty little kid that copied the work of others in hope of becoming famous.
Here’s a tiny excerpt of what I wrote:
Sienna Wice - A magical Diary
Wednesday: Tomorrow I will finally go back to Slyghnyngton, a school for Wizards and Witches - in my opinion it is the best one. I love the castle with all the towers, the corridors and the huge rooms. I’m very excited, because we will learn a new subject this year: Mystic Animals. Mrs Gilderoy will be the teacher. I will also bring my cat Srilanga to school. There are not a lot of wizards who don’t have humans in their family. My mum is a human, and my dad is a former wizard, but I don’t know why he got banned from being a wizard.
Thursday: Today I bought all the stuff I needed for the schoolyear: A purple crystal ball, and a new book that’s covered in colourful gems. I also met my best friends Jamie and Alycia again, and in the bus we sat next to Freddie. Freddie is a very good student, but he looked like he just cried. I asked him what happened, but he wouldn’t tell me.
Friday: Today we got our timetables. On monday we would have Dark Wizardry in the first lesson, and I hate this subject. Jamie likes it, he’s kinda into it, but Alycia and I hate it. During lunch we played “Wizard Bugs” with Freddy. The game is about bringing a bug into the finish line without using a lot of spells. I needed 10 spells. Of course there are spells that would help me to win immediately, but they are forbidden, because they belong to the “Five forbidden Curses”. In the afternoon we went into the forest, when we suddenly heard someone talking. “...get rid of him. He knows about it, what should we do?” “A curse.” “Are you stupid? They would kick us...”
Thank you, 10-year-old me. You made my afternoon because you tried to fake Harry Potter.